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The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographische Gesellschaft München call for entries for Granshan 2013, 6th International Type Design Competition for Non-Latin typefaces.

All type designers from all parts of the world are invited to take part with typefaces that have been designed or digitized after 2011. This year’s competition includes a new category for Chinese typefaces.

For 2013, the organizers will honor up to three winners with certificates in each written language, thus each category. Furthermore, a jury of international experts will award the Grand Prize including prize money of 1,000 Euro.

Non-Latin type designs can be submitted to the following categories:

Armenian text typefaces

Arabic text typefaces

China text typefaces

Cyrillic text typefaces

Greek text typefaces

Indic text typefaces

Display typefaces

The winners will be announced at a press conference held by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan in the month of November, 2013.

Entry Fees

A competition fee of 20 Euro is levied on each entry and each category. One typeface can be submitted in up to 7 categories, which results in an entry fee of max. 140 Euro.

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